Anyone reading my blog for any amount of time knows how much I love sharing my passion for photography and I love teaching other photographers things that totally make their day. For the longest time I’ve been sharing lighting tutorials, composition tips, equipment comparisons on small blog posts but I’ve been wanting to share even [...]
This blog post is my homage to a photographic era of yester-year, the days before anyone had even heard of a little program called Adobe Photoshop, back when making a digital scan of your photo meant purchasing THOUSANDS of dollars in special equipment. This didn’t mean people didn’t do crazily creative things to their images, [...]
Ever notice how most digital black & whites look sort of washed out? That’s because they’re using what an off-set printer would call an “unsupported” black. When a graphic designer wants a pure, rich black they use a black “supported” with additional inks making a dark silky black instead of a sort of dark grey [...]
Remember back to when you were first learning Photoshop? You probably went through and applied different filters, maybe you tried doing a colorized-black-and-white image, maybe you created some color effects stuff like that. Well, the idea was to experiment! You didn’t know how things would turn out you just started TRYING things. There is nothing [...]
Neck wrinkles in photos is my number one Pet Peeve Neck Wrinkle (n) The overlaps in skin caused when a person’s head is turned with a seemingly unnatural angle relative to the neck. Even though most photographers and models will create images that avoid overlapping wrinkles of skin somehow neck wrinkles pop up in professional fashion [...]
Thank you to everyone that shared their opinions on how I achieved the Spiraling Out effect in my first Exercise in Photoshop Forensics post. I definitely think it was successful enough that I’ll do another one in the future but for now let’s get to the solution! Ofir Abe’s description was correct in his guess about [...]
How was it done? You be the judge. EDITOR’S NOTE: The solution to this exercise was posted in a separate blog post, you can view it here if you’d like http://www.jakegarn.com/solution-exercise-in-photoshop-forensics/ I used a couple very simple techniques to create these images and rather than offer a post-processing tutorial I’m going to turn the challenge [...]
Editing a High Key Portrait In Lightroom A brief introduction to some editing tools I used in Adobe Lightroom 2.0.
Five Faces Do multiple faces mean automatic super-villain status? ++++ I am nothing if not a mad scientist, had I any talents in biology or any sort of life sciences I would be the guy in a lab that accidentally created a super hero/villain out of myself and at this moment a blockbuster movie would [...]
Retouching a Beauty Portrait Showing a few simple techniques for retouching a beauty portrait in Adobe Photoshop.
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